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 coArrs o &uIrFRAJ. :IS we 'steered over the tail within the ooloured ruder, but bed no botmn with forty-five fthoms: In meny pens near the islmxi the rocks must be vry lio .below the suffe:e oF tbe weber, for the  oocasion, dly broke upon them.. We then stoered to the East and E.N.E.. d at nigit made short .trips on either tack, The weather was .extremely sultry du. rin the alter- noon, the ithermometer .being at 89 �d when eposed  the rain, the mercury rose. to lI5 �Towaais. sunset large flights of boobies, terns, Ired other sea-birtis passed by, flying tq. wards the islands. One or two stopped to, notice us, ..trod.. Pew round the brig several times, The night was fine with light .south-west .winds: but we had lightning in the N.E., from which quarter, at. daylight, the weather clouded in; and,. from .the increasing dampness of the �atmosphere, indicated rain. At noon wi were in 1, � 15': S. and 7" 1' east of the ao in Cygnet Bay'. .The wind was. from the southward with dull cloudy weather. .Iarge fiits of birds were aboqt �the yamel. prey upon smell fish swi..m among the se-weed, of which we passed a ret .quantity. AS. th evin approached, the wea.- ther clouded in, and. threatened us, with notlr
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